Important Chinese Art
Important Chinese Art
A BLUE AND WHITE 'LUOHAN' CENSER, QING DYNASTY, KANGXI PERIOD
Auction Closed
September 23, 08:35 PM GMT
Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
A BLUE AND WHITE 'LUOHAN' CENSER
QING DYNASTY, KANGXI PERIOD
清康熙 青花「阿彌陀佛」爐
of compressed bombé form, the rounded sides sweeping to a gently flaring rim, and raised on a straight foot, the exterior finely painted in varying tones of cobalt-blue with four luohan seated on circular fringed mats, halos encircling their bald heads, attired in monks' robes, two holding fly whisks, one with a scepter and the fourth with hands in prayer, divided by four inscribed characters, a mi tuo fo, all beneath a keyfret band surmounted by a row of small dots, the interior white-glazed, the base with an apocryphal six-character Chenghua mark
《大明成化年製》仿款
Diameter 7¾ in., 19.6 cm
Marchant, London.
來源
Marchant，倫敦
A smaller example of this type was included in the exhibition The Bertil J.Högström Collection, Kangxi Blue and White Porcelain, Marchant, London, 2011, cat. no. 10. See also a censer bearing a Kangxi reign mark and dated to 1695 painted with the Eighteen Luohan in the Shanghai Museum, illustrated in Wang Qingzheng, Underglaze Blue and Red, Hong Kong, 1993, pl. 166.